This is a classic traveler’s conundrum. You want to bring your camera, phone, and cash to the beach. But how can you enjoy yourself in the water if you’re worried about someone grabbing your stuff? You may be tempted to ask a stranger to watch your things, but that friendly-seeming local may take the opportunity...

We’re Jack Bolshaw and Marta Kulesza, and we spent the last few years of our lives photographing the mountains and writing about our experiences while traveling from the Highlands of Iceland to the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Whether it’s raining, snowing, sunny or stormy, we are outside trying to make the most of the...